From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 9 17:02:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19229 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 17:02:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lor.watermarkgroup.com (lor.watermarkgroup.com [207.202.73.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19221 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 17:02:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luoqi@watermarkgroup.com) Received: (from luoqi@localhost) by lor.watermarkgroup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA12460; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 20:01:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from luoqi) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 20:01:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Luoqi Chen Message-Id: <199807100001.UAA12460@lor.watermarkgroup.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, heyer@cs.wisc.edu Subject: Re: swap_pager and vm_faults Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Any idea what exactly would cause this? > > Jul 5 08:30:24 rancor /kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed; > blkno 708776, size 4096, error 22 You have a bad sector on your swap partition. I presume this is an IDE disk, you may try using bad144 to map the bad sector out. > Jul 5 08:30:24 rancor /kernel: vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) > error, PID 197 failure > Jul 5 08:30:24 rancor /kernel: pid 197 (innd), uid 8: exited on signal 11 > > As you can tell from innd, this machine is a news Server with 96 Megs of > RAM and 256 Megs of Swap. While the CPU and Disk Drives are kept pretty > busy, it usually has plenty of memory to spare. The time it occured (8:30 > AM on a Sunday) and the fact the machine stayed up seems very strange to > me. This machine has been rebooting about once a day on average for no > obvious reason, so I'm trying to investigate everything possible. > > -- > John Heyer :: University of Wisconsin - Madison :: http://heyer.ml.org > -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message